A RINGWOOD street is among the slowest for broadband in the country, new research has revealed.

Long-suffering internet users in Foxbury Road, St Leonards, face an average download speed of 0.976Mbps.

To compare, those living in Sandy Lane in Cannock, Staffordshire, have average speeds of 72.86Mbps, a survey conducted by uSwitch.com has revealed. In the country’s slowest street for the internet – Williamson Road in Romney Marsh, Kent – it takes 19 hours to download a two-hour HD film, two-and-a-half hours to download a 45-minute HD TV show and 49 minutes to download a 20-song album.

In Sandy Lane, it would take eight minutes to download a two-hour HD film, one minute to download a 45-minute HD TV show, and 22 seconds to download a 20-song music album.

According to the research, which is based on more than one million speed tests run by broadband users over six months, a third – 34 per cent – of the UK still struggles with sub-5Mbps speeds, while an unlucky 23 per cent make do with sluggish speeds of less than 3Mbps.